[custom_adv] ibrahim Tatlıses (born 1952), known popularly as İbo, is a Turkish folk singer and former actor from Kurdish and Arab origine. Tatlıses has recorded 42 albums, including notable albums such as Ayağında Kundura and Selam Olsun and was the host of the highly popular television programme İbo Show. [custom_adv] He was also a leading actor that appeared in several dozen films, and also worked in the restaurant and tourism businesses. He was shot in the head in an assassination attempt in 2011. [custom_adv] İbrahim Tatlıses was born in Urfa (Şanlıurfa), in the southeast of Turkey. He is of mixed Arab–Kurdish ancestry.Kurdish is his mother tongue. He lost his father during childhood, and did not attend high school. He did not know how to read or write growing up. [custom_adv] [custom_adv] In the 1980s the Turkish government had banned the use of Kurdish; at a concert in Sweden in December 1986, he had sung folk songs in Kurdish and was thus prosecuted for separatist propaganda, but found not guilty in 1987. [custom_adv] The charge was dismissed after he showed regret. In 1988, he was asked by businessman Mehmet Yilmaz at a cultural festival in Usak to sing a Kurdish folk song, but refused, saying "I am a Kurd, but the laws ban me for singing in Kurdish". [custom_adv] For this, he was indicted on September 19, 1988.In 1994 there were evidence that Turkish counter-guerrilla organizations targeted Kurdish businessmen, including Tatlıses, Idris Ozbir, Halis Toprak, and Necdet Ulucan. [custom_adv] In 1998 it was reported that Tatlıses offered to be an intermediary between the government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) during the armed conflict.In 2018, he gave public support to the Turkish military operation in Afrin against the People's Protection Units. [custom_adv] After returning from Germany, Tatlıses married Ayşegül Yıldız on 27 September 2011 in the rehabilitation facility where he was receiving treatment.He sold tapes and sang at weddings and in restaurants until a producer discovered him in 1976. He had adopted Tatlıses (sweet-voiced) as a stage name. [custom_adv] Tatlıses is regarded the most famous of the Arabesk singers. He is known popularly as "İbo".He was shot in the leg in 1990 and survived an assassination attempt in 1998. On 14 March 2011, he was attacked and seriously wounded in the head. [custom_adv] At 00:30 local time, he and his spokeswoman Buket Çakıcı were shot at by unknown assailants after leaving the offices of the private Turkish channel Beyaz TV following his weekly television show. As they entered their vehicle, Tatlises was hit with a bullet that entered the back of his skull and exited through the front.
